Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet

by SimonJohnson (Author), SimonJohnson (Author)

New
Illustrated
2004
$18.34

This title helps you protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. It enables you to: learn to identify the real threats - be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware - and formulate an effective protection plan; and choose the best software for your needs and your budget from the book's independent review of firewalls, web filters, anti-virus products, and more. Plus, a companion Web site hosted by the author includes updated data and information. Get free eTrust EZ Antivirus Software for one year with purchase of this book.

Synopsis

This title helps you protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. It enables you to: learn to identify the real threats - be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware - and formulate an effective protection plan; and choose the best software for your needs and your budget from the book's independent review of firewalls, web filters, anti-virus products, and more. Plus, a companion Web site hosted by the author includes updated data and information. Get free eTrust EZ Antivirus Software for one year with purchase of this book.

$18.34

Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 340
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia
Published: 26 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0072257415
ISBN 13: 9780072257410

Author Bio

Simon Johnson (Victoria, Australia) has 10 years experience as an IT security professional with a number of organizations and government departments. He co-founded and managed Shake Communications in 1997, an IT security business. In 1998 he co-founded SecuritySearch.Net, which at the time, was the largest IT security portal on the Internet. SecuritySearch.Net received more than 155,000 page views per month and sent free security newsletters to more than 16,000 subscribers worldwide, per week. The site was sold in 2002 to US security firm GFI. The newsletter subscription arm of the business was sold to US security firm, Relevant Technologies. Johnson has been interviewed in television and print media on IT Security related topics, including Business 2.0, Computerworld, Corporate Risk, CNET News.com, Internetnews.com, Newswire, SBS World News, TechWeb, The Age, Wired Magazine and ZDNet News. He's written content for Total Surveillance by John Parker (Piatkas Publishing UK, 2000) and reviewed the business and e-commerce chapters in the book, Internet and World Wide Web by Deitel (Prentice Hall, 2002).